This Years Artists

Mac Traynham and Shay Garriock

Mac Traynham and Shay Garriock are a musical duo dedicated to carrying on the older musical traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Through their shared experience of visiting and learning directly from mountain folk, as well as a combined life time of studying the roots of old time music, they bring an increasingly rare, rustic, southern, and sometimes haunting performance to the stage. Whether a breakdown melody played as a fiddle/banjo duet or a lonesome song of tragedy sung and backed up with fiddle, guitar and harmonica, Mac and Shay strive to apply an appropriate level of energy and heartfelt spirit in every performance. Both are veteran performers and winners of numerous ribbons and awards at fiddler’s conventions throughout Virginia and North Carolina. They have produced one CD together: Turkey in the Mountain